NAACP

As you read this, the Senate prepares to vote to change the rules. If they are allowed to do so, President Trump could win his battle to change our country into a place where only the connected, corporations, and even the corrupt have power — without accountability through the rule of law. In the less than 80 days since Donald Trump took office, he’s attempted to ban Muslims, end health care for 24 million people, break up immigrant families, abandon the responsibility to enforce laws that protect people from police brutality, and rescind the environmental rules that were saving our planet. Now he wants to remake our Supreme Court in his own political image by placing Neil Gorsuch on the Supreme Court.

Join the fight and call your senators now @ 888-877-2040 to say #StopGorsuch.

The Supreme Court is a job for life.If Judge Gorsuch is confirmed, we’ll likely face 40 years of court decisions that favor corporations over workers as well as the privileged and powerful over the vulnerable who need their civil rights protected.

Yes, we can stop him by calling our Senators now at 888-877-2040.

Already our allies in the Senate are filibustering and delaying Gorsuch’s confirmation, but Republican leadership are planning to cheat by changing the rules to allow for him to be confirmed with only 51 votes, instead of the normal 60 needed to confirm a Supreme Court justice. We know it is better to have the seat go unfilled for the moment, rather than have it filled by the wrong person for 40 years.

Don’t change the rules, change the nominee.

If that’s not enough, well-connected and conservative partisans have donated millions of dollars to promote television ads making Gorsuch appear to be a friend of civil rights, when his record says otherwise. These well-to-do partisans are the same ones who donated millions to hold off President Barack Obama’s nominee to the Supreme Court for nearly a year, preventing him from even getting a hearing. And yet they now want us to accept Gorsuch getting the express lane to the Supreme Court — with a rule change, too.

Please support our work as we continue to fight the important battles that protect democracy and the rights of all people.

http://action.naacp.org/supportourrights

Please call your senator now and tell them to #StopGorsuch and join us and over 200 organizations committed to protecting the civil rights that keep our democracy real. This is not a partisan question of which party gets a seat on the Supreme Court; it’s a question of whether our democracy will remain real to the average American. It’s about whether an administration that is running roughshod over the rights of many Americans will put a judge in the Supreme Court who won’t protect those rights.

We say unequivocally and unapologetically: “No.”

Visit our website for a page full of social media resources to help #StopGorsuch:

http://action.naacp.org/stopGorsuch

In solidarity,

Cornell William Brooks
President and CEO
NAACP

CALL SCRIPT (not from the NAACP)

Hi, my name is ____________ and I live in _____________.

I’m calling to ask my senator to vote NO on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

[Explain any reasons that are important to you - for example, some of the information above]

I’m counting on my senator to do the right thing and vote no on his nomination.

Thank you for your time.

(And if your senator opposes Gorsuch, thank them and encourage them to keep fighting!)

PLANNED PARENTHOOD

President Trump’s allies in the Senate are hell-bent on ramming through his extreme pick for the Supreme Court, promising a final vote this week.  

We can’t allow politicians to install a justice on our highest court who’s hostile to women’s fundamental health and rights. With the future of abortion access, birth control coverage, and respect for people’s fundamental rights at stake, we have to make our voices heard — loud and clear, right now — before the final vote. As a Planned Parenthood Defender, you know the value of speaking out when it’s needed most.

Call your senators now — even if you already have! — to voice your opposition to Donald Trump’s dangerous Supreme Court nominee.

No Senate action has higher stakes than the confirmation of a Supreme Court nominee. With a lifetime appointment, a single justice can dramatically reshape our most fundamental rights.

Thank you for making your voice heard when it matters most.

Sincerely,
Cecile Richards, President
Planned Parenthood Action Fund  

CALL SCRIPT

Hi, my name is ____________ and I live in _____________.

I’m calling to ask my senator to vote NO on Judge Neil Gorsuch’s nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court.

I’m extremely alarmed by Judge Gorsuch’s history of interfering with reproductive rights, including access to birth control and care at Planned Parenthood. Gorsuch has ruled in favor of the idea that corporations are people and a woman’s employer should be able to decide whether or not she has access to birth control. I do not trust him to uphold my fundamental rights, including the right to access abortion.

I’m counting on my senator to do the right thing and vote no on his nomination.

Thank you for your time.

(And if your senator opposes Gorsuch, thank them and encourage them to keep fighting!)

From Sage Stossel, “Averting Senate Meltdown”

Genealogy

How is Debbie Reynolds (1932-2016), actress, Hollywood Walk of Fame, related to -~-~ Neil Gorsuch (b.1967), associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, 2017-x?

………………………John Cole + Johanna Garrett

………………………1669-1746….1675-1715

………………………………………..|

Joseph Cole …………………………… Sarah Cole

1690-1720…………………………………1693-1758

………+……………………………………………….+

Susannah Darwell ………………… Charles Gorsuch

1696-x……………………………………….1687-1747

……….|………………………………………………..|

(continues to … )………………………(continues to … )

……….|………………………………………………..|

Debbie Reynolds …………………….. Neil Gorsuch

1932-2016………………………………….b.1967

With Amy Barrett’s confirmation, that makes 5 out of the 9 current Supreme Court justices who have been added by losers of the popular vote.